2 Corinthians 11:16-33 - Paul Boasts In His Sufferings
16 Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little. 17 What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in madness, in this first principle of boasting. 18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I shall also boast. 19 For ye bear with the mad willingly, being wise. 20 For ye bear, if any reduce you to bondage, if any devour, if any receive, if any be lifted up, if any skin you on the face. 21 I speak according to dishonour, as that we were weak. And in what any dares, (I speak in rashness,) I dare also.
22 Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they Abraham's seed? I also. 23 Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often. 24 Of the Jews five times I received forty, except one. 25 Thrice was I scourged with rods, once was I stoned, thrice suffered I shipwreck, I have made a night and day in the deep; 26 In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren; 27 In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Besides things outside, my distraction daily, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I am not inflamed 30 If I must boast, I will boast things of my weakness. 31 God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows, he being praised forever, that I lie not. 32 In Damascus king Aretas' governor watched the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and I escaped from his hands.